How much revenue did Urchins and Ink make?

$327–$880 after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Urchins and Ink sell?

Q: How many copies did Urchins and Ink sell?

149 to 242 copies, based on its 6 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 149–242; $327–$880 after Steam's cut $595–$1k before the cut; from 6 reviews (6 user reviews); Thin evidence: 6 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Urchins and Ink out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Urchins and Ink's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 982k–1.4M

best case 2.0M (PC Building Simulator)

Games like Urchins and Ink

The middle of these games

≈ 982k–1.4M copies

≈ $4.8M–$11.1M after Steam's cut

from ~19k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

7 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: PC Building Simulator at ≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies, ≈ $8.4M–$22.5M after Steam's cut.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Simulation (5 of 8) and Education (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Simulation + Education, priced around $20.
The era: The games you compared span 2012 to 2023, and none of them shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 79 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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